10,000 Iranian-Americans attend rally in support of pro-Democracy demonstrations in Iran.
Perhaps John Kerry should be reminded at the ballot box?
Posted on 02/08/2004 1:14:42 PM PST by freedom44
WASHINGTON (Mehr News Agency) -- The office of Senator John Kerry, the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary in the U.S., sent the Mehr News Agency an e-email saying that Kerry will try to repair the damage done by the incumbent president if he wins the election. The text of the e-mail follows.
As Americans who have lived and worked extensively overseas, we have personally witnessed the high regard with which people around the world have historically viewed the United States. Sadly, we are also painfully aware of how the actions and the attitudes demonstrated by the U.S. government over the past three years have threatened the goodwill earned by presidents of both parties over many decades and put many of our international relationships at risk.
It is in the urgent interests of the people of the United States to restore our country's credibility in the eyes of the world. America needs the kind of leadership that will repair alliances with countries on every continent that have been so damaged in the past few years, as well as build new friendships and overcome tensions with others.
We are convinced that John Kerry is the candidate best qualified to meet this challenge. Senator Kerry has the diplomatic skill and temperament as well as a lifetime of accomplishments in field of international affairs. He believes that collaboration with other countries is crucial to efforts to win the war on terror and make America safer.
An understanding of global affairs is essential in these times, and central to this campaign Kerry has the experience and the understanding necessary to successfully restore the United States to its position of respect within the community of nations. He has the judgment and vision necessary to assure that the United States fulfills a leadership role in meeting the challenges we face throughout the world.
The current Administration's policies of unilateralism and rejection of important international initiatives, from the Kyoto Accords to the Biological Weapons Convention, have alienated much of the world and squandered remarkable reserves of support after 9/11. This climate of hostility affects us all, but most especially impacts those who reside overseas. Disappointment with current U.S. leadership is widespread, extending not just to the corridors of power and politics, but to the man and woman on the street as well.
We believe John Kerry is the Democrat who can go toe-to-toe against the current Administration on national security and defense issues. We also remain convinced that John Kerry has the best chance of beating the incumbent in November, and putting America on a new course that will lead to a safer, more secure, and more stable world.
Kerry best hope that this isn't true .. or he'll have A LOT of explaining to do
Sounds like it to me
The other night, the College Republicans at my school had as our guest a former Reagan White House journalist, who told us that prior to Reagan, you felt compelled to hide your American citizenship when traveling abroad.
Mark
In other news from Kerry's good buddies, the mad mullahs of the Axis of Evil Iran, have been busy crushing democracy:
Fresh demonstrations rock Tehran University:
Fresh demo and sporadic clashes rocked, today, the Technical College of Tehran University as hundreds of students joined a meeting, organized by the Islamic Students Association, on the end of the so-called reforms.
Hundreds of students shouted slogans against the totality of the theocratic regime and its leaders as they witnessed the usual soft speeches of several disqualified candidates, current MPs, and heads of the Islamic Students Association. The presence of these incompetent MPs and their desperate try to use the already decided general boycott of the upcoming sham elections, by the majority of Iranians, in their favor was upset many students and made them to protest openly against the totality of the regime.
Many students cut the speeches by reminding them their accomplice silences when students were beaten up or murdered while these MPs were more thinking of safeguarding their positions and cutting deals on the back of Iranians.
Slogans, such as, "Sherkat dar entekhabat, khyanat, khyanat" (Participation in elections, a betryal, betryal), "Khatami, khejalat, khejalat", (Katami, shame, shame), "Ansar jenayat mikonad, Rahbar hemayat mikonad" (Ansar commit crimes, Supreme Leader support them), "Marg bar Dictatori" (Down with Dictatorship), "Marg bar Taleban, tche Kabol, Tche Tehran" (Down with Taleban, in Tehran as in Kabul), "Zendani e siassi, Azad bayad guardad" (Political Prisoners must be freed), "daneshjoo mimirad, Zellat nemi and "Referendum, Referendum, in ast shoar Mardom" (Referendum, Referendum, this is our people's slogan) were shouted by the students under the brutal attacks of regime's plainclothes men and so-called Bassidj students.
Hundreds of tracts were distributed in the premises denouncing the Feb. 20th sham elections. Same type of tracts have been distributed in wide scale in main Iranian cities calling for solidarity in the general boycott and predicting the future downfall of the regime.
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